Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books

Book SynopsisA retelling of U.S., Latin American, and Latino/a literary history through writing by Latinos/as who lived in the United States during the long nineteenth centuryWritten by both established and emerging scholars, the essays in The Latino Nineteenth Century engage materials in Spanish and English and genres ranging from the newspaper to the novel, delving into new texts and areas of research as they shed light on well-known writers. This volume situates nineteenth-century Latino intellectuals and writers within crucial national, hemispheric, and regional debates. The Latino Nineteenth Century offers a long-overdue corrective to the Anglophone and nation-based emphasis of American literary history. Contributors track Latino/a lives and writing through routes that span Philadelphia to San Francisco and roots that extend deeply into Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South Americas, and Spain. Readers will find in the rich heterogeneity of texts and authorTrade ReviewThe collections expansion of American literary history is also evident in the inclusion of Central American textualities, which have been overlooked in most fields of study. In sum, the 15 essays Lazo and Aleman bring together offer new frameworks to better understand and examine 19th-century Latina/o hemispheric movements. * Choice *The Latino Nineteenth Century builds on the past two decades of Latina/o scholarship that focuses on historicizing the place of Latina/os in the United States. The book thus excavates the history of Latina/os in seemingly unlikely regions such as New England and cities such as Philadelphia. Further, it illuminates the need to examine Spanish language texts rather than relying on works in English. Expanding the corpus of materials in this way also sheds light on the longer literary histories of Latina/o literature rather than relying on periodizations that ground Latina/o literature in the social movements of the mid-twentieth century. As The Latino Nineteenth Century reminds us, Latina/os existed in the United States well before the Chicano Movement. Further, to fully grasp the range of Latina/o experiences in the United States, several essays in this collection point to the necessity of examining US-Latin American relations. An impressive anthology that demonstrates the diversity and vitality of this period, The Latino Nineteenth Century makes necessary interventions into nineteenth-century American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Latin American Studies. * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *The nineteenth-century in the context of the extraordinary triangle presented here of Latina and Latino writers and intellectuals in the United States, Latin America, and the transatlantic may come to us in fragments, but what a marvel it is to bring together this dazzling constellation of scholars who highlight the historical dimensions of 'the Latino/a' and speak to the concurrent traditions, canons, moments, and tensions that have long been neglected and overlooked. Excitement for The Latino Nineteenth Century will have no bounds: this is sure to become a treasured volume. -- Claudia Milian, author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a StudiesThe Latino Nineteenth Century is expressive of the new directions in Latinx studies, and demonstrates the capaciousness of this field in accommodating nineteenth-century literary studies, and not the other way around. Indeed, the collection as a whole demonstrates that the Latinx nineteenth century is not a smaller, narrow subfield of this period, but rather constitutive of and formative to the field of nineteenth-century US literary studies. The editors of this volume challenge us to rethink our own orientations in C19 so as to think and teach in this field more expansively. * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisReimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates nineteenth-century America from the land to the oceans and seas that surrounded it. Edward Sugden argues that these ocean spaces existed in a unique historical fold between the transformations that inaugurated the modern eracolonialism to nationalism, mercantilism to capitalism, slavery to freedom, and deferent subject to free citizen. As travellers, workers, and writers journeyed across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean Sea, they had to adapt their political expectations to the interstitial social realities that they saw before them while also feeling their very consciousness, particularly their perception of time, mutate. These four domainsoceanic geography, historical folds, emergent politics, and dissonant timesin turn, provided the conditions for the development of three previously unnamed genres of the 1850s: the Pacific elegy, tTrade ReviewAn astute, surprising, and inventive study of the experiential and aesthetic possibilities that became imaginable during moments of historical and geographical irresolution in the & long nineteenth century, as older world-systems receded before new ones cohered. In those liminal & folds, Sugden remaps oceanic geoculture through a series of richly illuminating and refreshingly original interpretations of a host of texts, canonical and understudied. Emergent Worlds is, like the worlds it examines, full of possibilities and pleasures. -- Christopher Castiglia, author of Practices of Hope (NYU Press, 2017)Sugden has the rare gift of being able to synthesize complex conversations and formulations and then to intervene within them generously and wisely. His archive of texts is rich, bringing together an unusual grouping of authors ranging from Melville to the first Haitian novelist, Émeric Bergeaud. Emergent Worlds considers these texts as a collective & archival form that does more than merely preserve the interstitial states of emergent political thought that existed precariously in the time of their original production; it also protects a kind of seedbed for unknown futures: emergent forms of political imagining that might one day be called upon to remake a precarious world. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaEmergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been—and might yet emerge—within the archives of nineteenth-century American literacy and cultural study. * Early American Literature *You feel you are reading the work of a trailblazer. * Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies *In a book that makes forceful yet elegant interventions into conversations about the timelines of American studies and oceanic forms of relation, Sugden shows a remarkable ability to zoom among various temporal and literary scales, from the quirkily local to the global, from the canonical to the surprisingly marginalized. * Early American Literature *

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Book SynopsisPenetrating Critiques pairs Victorian literary texts set in Africa with archival texts in order to explore the fraught problem of British masculinity and its construction.Trade Review"In an analysis that straddles [...] the binary critical history of Heart of Darkness, Allin evokes the complexity and complicity of Conrad’s narrative. An epilogue on representations of empire after 9/11 brings the argument into the 21st century." -- N. Birns, New York University * CHOICE *"In her well-researched and well-written study, Leslie Allin traces signs of anxiety in a range of texts about Africa from the last quarter of the nineteenth century, including archival documents, newspaper reports, and popular fiction." -- Jochen Petzold, University of Regensburg * Victorian Periodicals Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Ruptures in Adventure Romance 1. Permeable Boundaries: Violence and Fantasy in Zululand 2. H. Rider Haggard’s Inversions: Vulnerability and the Narrative Volatility of Imperial Romance Part II: Gothic Penetrations 3. Transgression and Loss: General Gordon and Gothic Imagination 4. Marsh’s Perforations: Desire, Imperial Decay, and the Narrative Instability of The Beetle Part III: Modernist Dissolutions 5. Bodily Disintegrations: Forensic Exposure and the Human Leopard Society in Sierra Leone 6. Getting to the Hearts of Darkness Works Cited

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Book SynopsisRecalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) and Her "Dear Dead Longfellow" Chapter 2 Langston Hughes’s Rhythmic Literacy Chapter 3 Miss Lou Pedagogy and Mimic Women Chapter 4 Recitation Legacies in Dub and Indigenous Poetics Notes Permissions Works Cited

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Book SynopsisConsidering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour of the Star (1977), and A Breath of Life (1978). What is the specific aesthetic for which listening-in-writing calls? What is the relation that listening-in-writing establishes with silence, echo, and the sounds of the world? How are we to understand authorship when writers present themselves as objects of reception rather than subjects of production? In which ways does the robust oral and aural culture of Brazil shape literary genres and forms? In addressing these questions, Writing by Ear works in dialogue with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sound studies to contemplate the relationship between orality and writing. CiTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Certain Intimate Sense 2. Writing by Ear 3. The Aural Novel 4. Hearing the Wild Heart 5. Loud Object 6. The Echopoetics of G.H. 7. Coda: Hearing Horses

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Book SynopsisBeautiful Untrue Things explores the astonishing flurry of Oscar Wilde forgeries that circulated in the early twentieth century, offering an innovative reading that considers literary forgery a form of fan fiction.Trade Review"The study illuminates in meticulous detail the paradoxical relationship between forgery and authenticity in the Wildean sense: a good fake makes a good original. In four chapters Mackie maps out the structures of the meta-canon of Wilde’s literary afterlife." -- Katharina Herold * The Wildean *"Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde’s many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers." -- Brittany Reid * The Ormsby Review *"Mackie's study is certainly both extensively researched and beautifully written; his own fandom may be sensed in his allusive prose and clever headings. This book represents a substantial contribution to the study of Wilde's afterlife and itself demonstrates the attraction of adding to Wilde's story." -- Aaron Eames * Romance, Revolution & Reform *"Beautiful Untrue Things offers an insightful and fascinating exploration of Wilde’s many afterlives. Through well-selected case studies, Mackie illuminates key forgers, while introducing a myriad of others for further and future exploration. For readers new to Wilde and unfamiliar with his literary and theatrical oeuvre, Mackie offers necessary background to introduce his life and writing. For scholars of Wilde, Victorian literature, or Modernism, Beautiful Untrue Things provides an incisive discussion of this key figure, by both resituating him within his cultural context and reframing him for twenty-first century readers. By focusing on the forgers rather than the forged subject, Mackie details the processes of myth-making and not their hagiographic results." -- Brittany Reid * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Truth of Fakes 1. The Importance of Being Authentic 2. The Picture of Dorian Hope 3. Pen, Pencil, and Planchette 4. The Devoted Fraud Conclusion: The Teacher of Fandom Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamining various aesthetics of suspension in the works of nineteenth-century poets such as Coleridge, Shelley, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, Anne C. McCarthy shares important insights into the cultural fascination with the sublime.Trade Review"By carefully analyzing suspension, with its ‘constellation of meanings and images that gradually – if only through insistent repetition – take on increasingly general force' in the Romantic and early Victorian eras’, McCarthy considerably contributes to the overwhelming body of secondary scholarship on Romantic and Victorian literature." -- Sasha Tamar Strelitz * New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth-Century *"Awful Parenthesis is both ambitious and promising. It focuses and allows us to take a step forward in writing the history of an aesthetic that numerous studies see as pushing toward the future, something that reveals in the Romantics the seeds of the post-modern, perhaps the post-human." -- Deborah Weiss, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa * European Romantic Review *"An outstanding book that hospitably accommodates the reader in its complexity and nuance even as it entertains with its elegant, shrewd, and frequently quick-witted exegeses of form." -- Emma Mason, University of Warwick * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Awful Parenthesis presents a convincing case for re-theorizing the sublime by recognizing suspension as its condition of possibility." -- Kimberly Rodda, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Awful Parenthesis provides beautiful close readings of a range of poems, including an extended reading of Shelley’s Mont Blanc (1816). But this book’s most important contribution is not its treatment of particular poems or poets, but rather its moving […] consideration of the way life is lived in the face of contingency, and of the leap of faith such living requires." -- Casie LeGette, University of Georgia * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction - The Aesthetics of Suspension Chapter 1 - Coleridge, Suspension, and the Sublime Chapter 2 - Semblances of Truth in "Christabel" and Aids to Reflection Chapter 3 - The Aesthetics of Contingency in Shelley’s "Universe of Things" Chapter 4 - Tennyson and the Rhetoric of Suspended Animation Chapter 5 - Christina Rossetti’s Poetic Faith Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProviding the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Structure of the Bibliographical Entries Bibliography: Sources of Information Consulted Abbreviations: Sources of Bibliographical Information Translations from Italian, 1929–2016 1929–1939 1940–1949 1950–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2016 Author Index Title Index Translator Index Editor Index Artist and Illustrator Index Publisher Index Periodical Index Series Index

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Book SynopsisScholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Though Italians by  language culture, and  traditions, it seems that this group has been conveniently excised from history. And yet, Julian-Dalmatians constitute an important element in twentieth-century Italian history and represent a unique aspect of both Italian culture and emigration. This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these forgotten Italians by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz,Trade Review"An important scholarly contribution to both Canadian and Italian Canadian studies." -- Cristina Caracchini, Western University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"To date, it’s simply the best, most absorbing work about Italians in Canada, about the varied local narratives their presence can give rise to, as well as about the broader intellectual and cultural reflections that presence can foster." -- Francesco Loriggio, Carleton University * Italian Canadiana *Table of ContentsThe Julian-Dalmatian Tessera in Canada: An Introduction Konrad Eisenbichler 1. Esuli and Rimasti: Two Sides of a Coin Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin 2. Parola di donna: A Feminist Reading of Julian-Dalmatian Periodicals in Canada Benedetta Lamanna 3. Two Images of Internment: Mario Duliani and Vincenzo Poggi Elisabetta Carraro 4. Fiume and Canada: The Two Worlds of Gianni Angelo Grohovaz” Gianna Mazzieri Sanković 5. La Terza Forza: Gianni Angelo Grohovaz and the Rise of Italian-Canadian Culture, 1971 to 1975 Paul Baxa 6. Rimestando tra le acque del passato: Gianni Angelo Grohovaz’s Address to the Italian Club of Erindale College, 1984 Robert Buranello 7. Land, Sea, and the Search for Oneself in the Poetry of Diego Bastianutti Corinna Gerbaz Giuliano 8. The Poetry of Exile. An Interview with Diego Bastianutti Henry Veggian 9. Quarnerine Identity: The Hybrid Self in Caterina Edwards’ Island of the Nightingales Ida Vodarich Marinzoli 10. Protagonist, Chronicler, Historian: Three Voices of Representation in Rosanna Turcinovich Giuricin’s Maddalena ha gli occhi viola Gabriella Colussi Arthur 11. Vittorio Fiorucci: A Portrait of the Artist Guita Lamsechi 12. Dalmatian Stone: A Conversation with Silvia Pecota on Her Life and Art Paolo Frascà

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Book SynopsisThis book traces literary representations of small-town Ontario in the last century and concludes that small-town Ontario takes the form of whatever is needed by the urban narrator who recalls it.Trade Review"Ryan Porter’s insightful study, You Can’t Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction, observes the extent to which the canonical rural Ontario writing that participates in the small-town myth is produced from an urban vantage point." -- André Narbonne * American Review of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Projecting Difference − The Heritage of Small-Town and Rural Ontario 1 Rural Past and Urban Present: Landscape as Time 2 Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Rebutting the Small-Town Convention 3 Memory and Departure Part One: Synthesizing Memory – The Artist as Community Part Two: Departure, Return, Departure 4 Past Dependencies and Consolatory Histories Conclusion: Reflecting on Nostalgia’s Restoration Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisThe blending of people and living machines is a central element in the futurist reconstruction of the universe. However, prior to the futurist break, a group of early-twentieth-century poets, later dubbed crepuscolari (crepusculars), had already begun an attack against the dominant cultural system, using their poetry as the locus in which useless little objects clashed with the traditional poetry of human greatness and stylistic perfection. The Quiet Avant-Garde draws from a number of twenty-first-century theories vital materialism, object-oriented ontology, and environmental humanities as well as Bruno Latour’s criticism of modernity to illustrate how the crepuscular movement sabotaged the modern mindset and launched the counter-discourse of the Italian avant-garde by blurring the line dividing people from things. This liminal poetics, at the crossroad of tradition, modernism, and the avant-garde, acted as the initiator of the ethical and environmentalTable of ContentsIntroduction - Poetry at the Twilight 1. A Matter of Things: Modernity, Modernism, Avant-Garde 2. The Avant-Garde is Made of Useless Objects 3. Being a Living Thing: Toward a New Notion of Body 4. Love and the Grand Solidarity of Sound 5. The Avant-Garde Immersive Onto-Cognition

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Book SynopsisThis book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Trade Review"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry." -- Anne Burke * Prairie Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface Overture The Gable Window Prelude The Poet’s Thought Songs of Place In Lovers’ Lane The Fir Lane In an Old Garden The Old Home Calls The Exile The Summons Songs of Memory Three Days Companioned Do You Remember? Memory Pictures Interlude The Singer Songs of Lamentation Irrevocable I Would Be Well Night Watches If I Had Known The Book Longing The Mother Songs of War The Last Prayer The Three Songs We Who Wait Our Women Interlude One of the Shepherds Songs of Land and Sea When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the Fishing Boats Come In Rain in the Woods My Pictures The Wind in the Poplars The Sea-Shell Before Storm A Shore Picture The Sea to the Shore Songs of Death Too Late I Have Buried My Dead Omega An Old Man’s Grave The Treasures Songs of Love If Love Should Come Assurance The Gray Silk Gown On the Bridge Gratitude With Tears They Buried You To-day Forever To One Hated The Lover’s Catechism Postlude The Poet Coda What I Would Ask of Life Afterword Notes Bibliography Index by Title Index by Date Index by First Line

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Book SynopsisImagined Truths provides a twenty-first-century analysis of stylistic and philosophical manifestations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literary realism. Bringing together the work of the foremost specialists in the field of contemporary Spanish letters, this collection offers new approaches to literary and cultural criticism and reveals how Spanish realism, far from imitative of other European movements, engaged in complex and modern concepts of representation and mimesis. Imagined Truths acknowledges the critical importance of women writers and contemporary approaches to questions of gender. The essays address the impact of economics on our perceptions of reality and our constructions of everyday life, and they argue for the importance of emotions in the social construction of individual identity. Most importantly, the essays acknowledge the post-imperial turn in literary studies. Addressing a broad range of authors, works, and topics, incTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Mary L. Coffey, Pomona College and Margot Versteeg, University of Kansas Part One. Nineteeth-Century Spanish Realism: Root and Branch 1. Arabella’s Veil: Translating Realism in Don Quijote con faldas (1808) Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University, San Marcos 2. Between Costumbrista Sketch and Short Story: Armando Palacio Valdés’s Aguas fuertes Enrique Rubio Cremades, Universidad de Alicante 3. Money, Capital, Monstrosity: Metaphorical Matrices of Realism in Antonio Flores’s Ayer, hoy y mañana Rebecca Haidt, The Ohio State University Part Two. Modernity and the Parameters of Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realism 4. The Physician in the Narratives of Galdós and Clarín Peter Bly, Queen’s University 5. Travelling by Streetcar through Madrid with Galdós and Pardo Bazán Maryellen Bieder, Indiana University, Bloomington 6. Urban Hyperrealism: Galdós’s Dickensian Descriptions of Madrid Linda M. Willem, Butler University 7. Observed versus Imaginative Communities: Creative Realism in Galdós’s Misericordi Susan M. McKenna, University of Delaware Part Three. Stretching the Limits of Spanish Realism 8. Colonialism, Collages, and Thick Description: Pardo Bazán and the Rhetoric of Detail Joyce Tolliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 9. Embodied Minds: Critical Erotic Decisions in La Regenta Randolph D. Pope, University of Virginia 10. María Zambrano on Women, Realism, and Freedom Roberta Johnson, University of Kansas Part Four. The Challenges of Genre: Spanish Realism beyond the Novel 11. Writing (Un)clear Code: The Letters and Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazán and Benito Pérez Galdós Cristina Patiño Eirín, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela 12. "Volvía Galdós triunfante": Fortunata y Jacinta on Stage (1930) David T. Gies, University of Virginia 13. When Reality Is Too Harsh to Bear: Role-Play in Juan Marsé’s "Historia de detectives" Stephanie Sieburth, Duke University Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft’s Shipwreck 2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real 3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Alpine Sublime 4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron’s Poetics of the Real 5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley’s "The Triumph of Life" Coda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReconsidering Dostoevsky's legacy 200 years after his birth, this collection addresses how and why his novels contribute so much to what we think of as the modern condition.Trade Review"This is an academic book, after all, aimed at Dostoevsky specialists who already know what Dostoevsky has to say and want to analyze his texts rather than expound his message — as an academic book should." -- Sheldon Goldfarb * The Ormsby Review *"The ten chapters of this exceptionally well curated volume converge at the intersection of genre and historical contingency to consider how Dostoevsky’s formal innovations emerged in response to the challenges of his time … The aim is not comprehensive coverage, but rather depth and originality of the readings, which come together into a thought-provoking conversation." -- Irina M. Erman, College of Charleston * The Russian Review *“An invaluable read for every student and teacher of Dostoevsky’s works as well as anyone interested in the poetics of the realist novel.” -- Irina Reyfman, Columbia University * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Dostoevsky and the Novel in Modernity Katherine Bowers and Kate Holland 1. The Poetics of the Slap: Dostoevsky’s Disintegrating Duel Plot Kate Holland 2. Dostoevsky and the Missing Marriage Plot Anna A. Berman 3. The Greasy-Haired Pawnbroker and the Capitalist Raskrasavitsa: Dostoevsky’s Businesswomen Vadim Shneyder 4. Allegories of the Material World: Dostoevsky and Nineteenth-Century Science Melissa Frazier 5. Dostoevsky, Sechenov, and the Reflexes of the Brain: Toward a Stylistic Genealogy of Notes from Underground Alexey Vdovin 6. Deferred Senses and Distanced Spaces: Embodying the Boundaries of Dostoevsky’s Realism Sarah J. Young 7. Under the Floorboards, Over the Door: The Gothic Corpse and Writing Fear in The Idiot Katherine Bowers 8. The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment Greta Matzner-Gore 9. Illegitimacies of the Novel: Characterization in The Adolescent Chloë Kitzinger 10. Sovereignty and the Novel: Dostoevsky’s Political Theology Ilya Kliger Works Cited Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCelebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women’s magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 18941921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery’Trade Review"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry." -- Anne Burke * Prairie Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface Overture The Gable Window Prelude The Poet’s Thought Songs of Place In Lovers’ Lane The Fir Lane In an Old Garden The Old Home Calls The Exile The Summons Songs of Memory Three Days Companioned Do You Remember? Memory Pictures Interlude The Singer Songs of Lamentation Irrevocable I Would Be Well Night Watches If I Had Known The Book Longing The Mother Songs of War The Last Prayer The Three Songs We Who Wait Our Women Interlude One of the Shepherds Songs of Land and Sea When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the Fishing Boats Come In Rain in the Woods My Pictures The Wind in the Poplars The Sea-Shell Before Storm A Shore Picture The Sea to the Shore Songs of Death Too Late I Have Buried My Dead Omega An Old Man’s Grave The Treasures Songs of Love If Love Should Come Assurance The Gray Silk Gown On the Bridge Gratitude With Tears They Buried You To-day Forever To One Hated The Lover’s Catechism Postlude The Poet Coda What I Would Ask of Life Afterword Notes Bibliography Index by Title Index by Date Index by First Line

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Book SynopsisHow do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts. Taran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to de-aestheticize evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil’s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the evil genius, the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who bTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression I. Rule-breakers II. The Poet and the Devil 2. Symbols of the Morally Bad I. Grotesque Subversions II. The Dialectic of Disgust 3. Evil and the Sublime I. Between Elevation and Terror II. Representing Radical Evil 4. Wicked Spectators I. The Mirth of Tragedy II. Crime and the Connoisseur Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe central importance of naturalistic vision – of a sense of man’s life as part of nature – is emphasized in this study of the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne. In tracing this vision, Professor McSweeney makes a series of qualitative distinctions leading to a revaluation of the achievements of both poets. McSweeney begins with an examination of Swinburne’s critical and creative response to Tennyson, revealing Swinburne’s perception of the effect that Tennyson’s suppression of naturalistic vision and his consequent overemphasis on morality and metaphysical speculation had on his poetry. A brief discussion of Tennyson’s response to Swinburne is followed by an analysis of the literary climate of the 1820s and 1830s, necessary for an understanding of the central feature of Tennyson’s artistic development: the complex mutation which transformed him from a wholly Romantic poet into a largely Victorian one.Tracing the

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Book SynopsisThomas Hood, 1799-1845, is one of the most notable minor authors of the late Romantic and early Victorian period. He began life as an engraver, and went on to write poetry and prose and to edit comic periodicals and annuals including Hood’s Magazine and New Monthly Magazine. His friends included Charles Lamb, Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Charles Dickens; his concerns, the provision of adequate copyright legislation and the plight of the downtrodden. Plagued by ill health and heavy debts, Hood managed to maintain his sense of humour and an affectionate warmth in his personal relations. Between 1835 and 1840 he lived in Koblenz and Ostende in an attempt to save money to pay his creditors in England. The letters he wrote at that time to his friends in London and to his family paint a vivid picture of the life of the English émigré. This is the only edition of Hood’s letters; it is definitive and thoroughly annotated. It presents more basic biographical information than t

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Book SynopsisThere has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the Comedie humaine, although the device is well recognized and such a study has long been deemed essential by Balzac scholars. One cannot read far in the Comedie without encountering characters whom one has met in other novels. Balzac did not introduce recurring characters until after he had written thirty of forty stories, but he kept revising his work from one printing or edition to the next so that earlier stories have as many of the recurring characters as the later ones. Professor Pugh traces the use of the device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles between 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of some 3,000 characters. This study illuminates the genesis of several novels and sheds totally new light on the validity of

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Book SynopsisA five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.

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Book SynopsisCharles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all enthusiastic in their praise, and the play went into three editions.Saul is a drama of 135 scenes containing the remarkable character of the fallen angel Malzah, who has been compared by critics to Shakespeare’s Caliban. Itis a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the döppelgänger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.

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Book SynopsisIn his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature. In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth also employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values.Johnson shows how Wordsworth, when writing about the nature and significance of geometrical thought in The Prelude and The Excursion, designs his verse paragraphs in accordance with simple geometrical proportions which are thereby associated with the metaphysical value he attributes to geometry. Wordsworth finds geometrical forms to be hidden in the natural landscape and inherent in the structures of perception itself.This bo

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Book SynopsisEver since the word romantic and its many cognates in European languages began to be used as technical terms towards the end of the eighteenth century, the quest for a satisfactory definition of their meanings has continued unabated. This collection of essays traces the history of the word in the major European languages, showing how romantic and its cognates were first introduced, how their usage spread and their connotations proliferated, and how their present usage became established.This book opens with an introduction by the editor, followed by an essay in which Professor Raymond Immerwaher, Chairman of the Department of German, University of Western Ontario, shows how romantic and its cognates became fashionable in England, France and Germany, and traces the extension of the meanings of these words up to 1790. The story is then taken up in individual essays on the history of the word and its cognates in the major European countries: in Germany, by the editor; in England

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Book SynopsisExamines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Through new literary readings and original archival research, Anne O'Neil-Henry revises existing understandings of the development of industrialized culture.Trade Review"Anne O'Neil-Henry's new book draws on an extraordinarily diverse corpus of novels, catalogues, newspapers, advertisements, reviews, and correspondence from the early to mid-nineteenth century to illustrate the influences on, and responses to, the changing literary market. . . . In writing about her authors' mastery of the marketplace, O'Neil-Henry in turn demonstrates her own mastery of detail, distilling material from a variety of sources and marshaling it into the service of her focused argument with admirable lucidity."—Adam Cutchin, Nineteenth-Century French Studies"In Mastering the Marketplace: Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France, Anne O'Neil-Henry delivers a clear and nuanced reading of the literary field during the July Monarchy and of the most popular novelists who operated within it, successfully showing how the boundaries of high and low on which the notion of popular literature depends were never as fixed as they seemed to critics, either then or today. . . . Mastering the Marketplace goes a long way toward helping readers navigate the ambiguities and contradictions that make the nineteenth century's many different forms of popular literature so compelling."—Bettina Lerner, H-France"This book is a welcome addition to a number of studies that provide new insights into the July Monarchy as a site of modernity."—Whitney Walton, H-France"The depth of O'Neil-Henry's analyses and her consideration of cultural capital vs. commercial capital gives the reader a new perspective on the literature of all levels produced at this time."—Sharon L. Fairchild, French Review“A model of interdisciplinary research, presented with gratifying clarity. Mastering the Marketplace makes original contributions to the cultural study of early to mid-nineteenth-century France on a number of fronts.”—Andrea Goulet, professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France “Unique in the way that it examines the paradoxes of what we now consider ‘low’ and ‘high’ literature against a social framework remarkably like our own. . . . Eminently readable.”—Elizabeth Emery, professor of French at Montclair State University and author of Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881–1914): Privacy, Publicity, and PersonalityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Popular Panoramas 2. The de Kock Paradox 3. The Adaptable Eugène Sue 4. Balzac, High and Low Conclusion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dancing on the Color Line is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies. Original, illuminating, and meticulously researched, Martin’s book examines texts of John Pendleton Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain, showing how these writers assimilated and employed black aesthetic strategies of ‘signifying’ and ‘double voice’ associated with the trickster figure. Martin lays the groundwork for further scholarly inquiry, particularly regarding possible lines of influence of minority American writers on modern and postmodern canonical authors and their works.” —Ed Piacentino, emeritus professor of English at High Point University and editor of Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches (University Press of Mississippi)|“Dancing on the Color Line explores the familiar world of nineteenth-century US writing about race to defamiliarize it by suggesting its hybrid nature. Through Martin’s careful readings, well-known figures emerge as deeply influenced by the aesthetics and techniques of African American storytelling, and their literature reveals multiple trickster figures who turn a critical eye on the white power that frames them. Martin’s readers encounter the fiction she discusses differently and with more attention to the complexity of the historical and literary context in which it was created.” —Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary|“Martin has proven to be one of our most important scholars in American humor and culture. Wherever she focuses her attention, and brings to bear her critical intelligence, new insights and useful ideas emerge. Dancing on the Color Line is a thoughtful and enlightening study of the African American trickster figure. The result is a solid contribution to both African American studies and our understanding of the continuously complex nature of American humor.” —M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College and author of many works on American humor, southern culture, comic art, and William Faulkner

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Book SynopsisIntroduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from ‘Beetle Eyes’ to the ‘Shoplifter’s Dilemma’ and from ‘Hands in the Muff’ to ‘the Suicide Club’. While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment.

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Book SynopsisExploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches to Pater and shows precise ways in which the form of his prose expresses its content. Carolyn Williams asserts that Pater's aestheticism and his historicism should be understood as dialectically interrelated critical strategies, inextricable from each other in practice. Williams discusses the explicit and embedded narratives that play a crucial role in Pater's aesthetic criticism and examines the figures that compose these narratives, including rhetorical tropes, structures of argument such as genealogy, and historical or fictional personae.Trade ReviewIn addition to her superb analysis of the style and thought of Pater's individual writing, demonstrates that Pater was far more philosophically coherent and complex, and of far more interest for contemporary critical thought, than has previously been recognized. Her book is the best critical study on Pater yet written. * Victorian Studies *A convincing account of the unity of Pater's thought and probably the most detailed treatment ever attempted of the intricacies of his prose; a book that is likely to be an essential source for future readings of Pater. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *Table of ContentsPart One: Opening Conclusions1. "That Which Is Without"2. "The Inward World of Thought and Feeling"3. Aestheticism4. Answerable Style5. Historicism6. Aesthetic Historicism and "Aesthetic Poverty"7. The Poetics of RevivalPart Two: Figural Strategies in The Renaissance1. Legend and Historicity2. Myths of History: The Last Supper3. The Historicity of Myth4. Myths of History: The Mona Lisa5. Types and Figures6. Low and High Relief: "Luca Della Robbia"7. The Senses of ReliefPart Three: Historical Novelty and Marius the Epicurean1. The Transparent Hero2. Autobiography of the Zeitgeist3. The Transcendental Induction4. Typology as Narrative Form5. Typological Ladders6. Christian Historicism7. Literary History as "Appreciation"Part Four: "Recovery as Reminiscence": The Greek Studies and Plato and Platonism1. Histories of Myth: The Greek Studies2. The House Beautiful and Its Interpreter3. The Philosophy of Mythic Form4. The History of Philosophy5. The Anecdote of the Shell6. Dialogue and Dialectic7. Paterian Recollection: The Anagogic Mind

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Book SynopsisSpirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure of the West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific naturalism. Spirit Matters covers a range of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities.Franklin investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series oTrade ReviewFranklin's study, well researched and grounded in primary documents, makes an important contribution to the study of 19th-century Christianity, alternative religions, and the predecessors of 20th-century New Age religion. * Choice *Spirit Matters is persuasive and engaging, deserving of the attention of anyone interested in English literature or in the development of modern Western occultism. * Fortean Times *A generous overview of a large topic.... Franklin's contribution to this established research works powerfully to both collect and to expand upon these core concepts of heterodox faiths and belief systems and, in particular, to better globalize them. The result is a text that avoids broad conclusions and injects a series of much-needed nuances to the overall tapestry of the study of heterodox religions and occult philosophies. * The Wilkie Collins Journal *Spirit Matters presents a critical exploration of these various alternative spiritual discourses...[W]orthy contributions to this field of study. * British Association for Victorian Studies *Overall, the book is excellent: a very close reading of a set of sources for historical data where many would not think to perform such a reading. * Nova Religio *Fascinating and compelling. * The Journal of Religion *The originality of Spirit Matters undoubtedly comes from Franklin's keen analysis of the intertwined religious, cultural, and national discourses on orthodox Christianity in relation to the formulation of alternative religions fostered by the scientific skepticism about Christian Spirit. * Supernatural Studies *Much recommended. * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisHarry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historical fiction by revealing its formal possibilities and limitations. His wide-ranging book establishes a typology of the ways in which history was used in prose fiction during the nineteenth century, examining major works by Sir Walter Scottthe first modern historical novelistand by Balzac, Hugo, Anatole France, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, and Tolstoy.Trade ReviewShaw's is a distinguished book, a worthy sequel to the studies of Lukács, Fleishman, Iser, and others who have opened our eyes to the nature of historical fiction and of Scott's craft of historical fiction in particular. The Forms of Historical Fiction is a major contribution to fiction studies. -- Frank Jordan * The Wordsworth Circle *

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Book SynopsisGod only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do... Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although he knew that this narrative utopiaturning the totality of his life into a bookwould remain unfulfilled, Tolstoy would spend the rest of his life attempting to achieve it. Who, What Am I? is an account of Tolstoy''s lifelong attempt to find adequate ways to represent the self, to probe its limits and, ultimately, to arrive at an identity not based on the bodily self and its accumulated life experience.This book guides readers through the voluminous, highly personal nonfiction writings that Tolstoy produced from the 1850s until his death in 1910. The variety of these texts is enormous, including diaries, religious tracts, personal confessions, letters, autobiographical fragments, anTrade ReviewOffers a rare exploration into the internal world of Tolstoy by examining his nonfictional, first-person writings, including diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, and essays.... Paperno makes an invaluable contribution to Tolstoy scholarship. -- R. A. Erb * CHOICE *Paperno reads all his [Tolstoy’s] writings in relation to the central project of his life: the transformation of his life into a book that would teach others how to live.... ‘Who, What Am I?’ is an important book that will become a standard source for students, general readers and scholars alike. * SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN REVIEW *Paperno deftly shows how Tolstoi's attempt to write an autobiography failed, but his perceived failure at capturing the moral, philosophical, and technical issues accurately becomes a testament to his literary honesty (102). "Who, What Am I?" is highly important for any Tolstoi researcher, as it brings together the whole of his writings dealing with the exploration of the self. -- Radha Balasubramanian * Slavic Review *This is a relatively short book, yet it is rich in content, taking on some of the most important and challenging problems Tolstoy faced as a writer and thinker. [Irina Paperno] draws on a full range of Tolstoy's nonfiction writings from the 1850s until his death in 1910: diaries, letters, reminiscences, autobiographical and confessional statements, essays, and religious tracts. In addition, her book is informed by vast reading in other sources, primary and secondary. -- Randall A. Poole * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "So That I Could Easily Read Myself": Tolstoy's Early DiariesTolstoy Starts a Diary—The Moral Vision of Self and the Temporal Order of Narrative—What Is Time? Cultural Precedents—“A History of Yesterday”— Time and Narrative—The Dream: The Hidden Recesses of Time—What Am I? The Young Tolstoy Defines Himself—What Am I? Cultural PrecedentsInterlude: Between Personal Documents and FictionFrom Diaries to Childhood: Tolstoy Becomes a Writer (1852)—“I Think I Will Never Write Again”: Tolstoy Attempts to Renounce Literature (1859)—“I . . . Don’t Even Think about the Accursed Lit-t-terature and Lit-t-terateurs”: Tolstoy Renounces Literature Again (1870); and Again (1874–75)Chapter 2. “To Tell One’s Faith Is Impossible. . . . How to Tell That Which I Live By. I’ll Tell You, All the Same. . . .” Tolstoy in His Correspondence“What Is My Life? What Am I?”: Tolstoy’s Philosophical Dialogue with Nikolai Strakhov—“I Wish that You, Instead of Reading Anna Kar [ enina ], Would Finish It. . . .”—“In the Form of Catechism,” “In the Form of a Dialogue”—To Tell One’s Life—Rousseau and His Profession/Confession—The Parting of Ways: Tolstoy Writes His Confession, and Strakhov Continues to Confess in His Letters to TolstoyChapter 3. Tolstoy’s Confession : What Am I?Tolstoy Publishes his Confession—The Conversion Narrative: Excursus on the Genre—Tolstoy’s Confession : Step by Step—Tolstoy’s Confession Related to Rousseau’s and Augustine’s—After Confession: “Presenting Christ’s Teaching as Something New after 1,800 Years of Christianity”—Coda: Tolstoy’s InfluenceChapter 4. “To Write My Life ”: Tolstoy Tries, and Fails, to Produce a Memoir or AutobiographyThe Author Biography—“My Life”: “On the Basis of My Own Memories”—“Reminiscences”: “More Useful Than All That Artistic Prattle with Which the Twelve Volumes of My Works Are Filled”—“Reminiscences”: “I Cannot Provide a Coherent Description of Events and States of Mind”—“The Green Stick”: “Où Suis-Je? Pourquoi Suis-Je? Que Suis-Je?”—Tolstoy and the Autobiographical TraditionChapter 5. “What Should We Do Then?”: Tolstoy on Self and Other“Why Have You, a Man from a Different World, Stopped near Us? Who Are You?”—Master and Slave: Tolstoy Rewrites Hegel—Tolstoy and the Washerwoman—The Order of Things: The Church, the State, the Arts and Sciences—“Master and Man”—Coda: Nonparticipation in EvilChapter 6. “I Felt a Completely New Liberation from Personality”: Tolstoy’s Late DiariesTolstoy Resumes his Diary—The Temporal Order of Narrative: The Last Day—“On Life and Death ”—The Diary as a Spiritual Exercise—“I, the Body, Is Such a Disgusting Chamber Pot”—“I Am Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself Being Conscious of Myself. . . .”—“I Have Lost the Memory of Everything, Almost Everything. . . . How Can One Not Rejoice at the Loss of Memory?”—Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening—Tolstoy’s Dreams—Dreams: The World beyond Time and Representation—The Book of life: “It Is Written on Time”—The Circle of Reading: “To Replace the Consciousness of Leo Tolstoy with the Consciousness of All Humankind”—“The Death of Socrates”—Tolstoy’s DeathAppendix: Russian QuotationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHomicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 17981860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the unwritten law of a husband''s revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of andTrade ReviewHomicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is an excellent reference work, one that I will use often in determining the full implication of such acts as murder and seduction, not only in pre–Civil War fiction, but also in social and psychological attitudes of the same period. -- Philip Durham * American Quarterly *Because the approach to an old problem is new, the book is stimulating. Because its treatment is not definitive it is provocative. It is the sort of writing that might well be used to initiate interdisciplinary discussions on both content and method. -- Albert Morris * American Sociological Review *

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Book SynopsisProstitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seductionthe Victorian fallen woman represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.Trade ReviewAs the subtitle suggests, Anderson’s subject is not so much the prostitute in Victorian literature as it is the rhetoric the Victorians used to construct ‘fallenness.’ * CHOICE *Some ideas in Tainted Souls and Painted Faces will be useful in classroom discussions about the pressures exerted on authors by specific literary forms and generalized cultural anxieties. -- Sally Mitchell * Victorian Studies *

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Book SynopsisSixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable''s protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians'' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholarsMalcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracysuggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens'' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens chanTrade ReviewThis book will delight Dickens scholars and prove an asset to any university library.... It is one that will inspire readers to consider the changes the great writer has wrought in them, and that they, in their turn, may bring to Dickens scholarship. * Modern Language Review *This collection proves Dickens to have been a keen student of change throughout his life. Its contributors... consider how Dickens promotes social change, how he presents changes of power, how he changes his own techniques, and finally how his presentation of change has inspired others.... As this impressively kaleidoscopic collection attests, Dickens's discussions of change remain a stimulating topic well over a century later. * Dickens Quarterly *An enjoyable and wide-ranging collection of articles exploring Dickens and change. * English Studies *Excellent discussions of condition-of-England novels. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Changing Dickens I. Dickens and Social Change Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens's View of Effecting Social Reform The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World II. Dickens and Changes of Power Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda "The Tremendous Potency of the Small": Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son III. Dickens and Literary Change The Passing of the Pickwick Moment The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater The Cultural Politics of Dickens's Hard Times Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop Popular Dickens: Changing Bleak House for the East End Stage The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857 How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect Index

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Book SynopsisSixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable''s protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians'' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholarsMalcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracysuggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens'' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens chanTrade ReviewThis book will delight Dickens scholars and prove an asset to any university library.... It is one that will inspire readers to consider the changes the great writer has wrought in them, and that they, in their turn, may bring to Dickens scholarship. * Modern Language Review *This collection proves Dickens to have been a keen student of change throughout his life. Its contributors... consider how Dickens promotes social change, how he presents changes of power, how he changes his own techniques, and finally how his presentation of change has inspired others.... As this impressively kaleidoscopic collection attests, Dickens's discussions of change remain a stimulating topic well over a century later. * Dickens Quarterly *An enjoyable and wide-ranging collection of articles exploring Dickens and change. * English Studies *Excellent discussions of condition-of-England novels. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Changing Dickens I. Dickens and Social Change Repetitions and Reversals: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House Dickens, Society, and Art: Change in Dickens's View of Effecting Social Reform The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World II. Dickens and Changes of Power Parrots, Birds of Prey, and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda "The Tremendous Potency of the Small": Dickens, the Individual, and Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age Money, Power, and Appearance in Dombey and Son III. Dickens and Literary Change The Passing of the Pickwick Moment The Chimes and the Rhythm of Life Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens IV. Dickens and Changes in Popular Culture and in the Theater The Cultural Politics of Dickens's Hard Times Conjuring Dickens: Magic, Intellectual Property, and The Old Curiosity Shop Popular Dickens: Changing Bleak House for the East End Stage The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, June-July 1857 How to Read Dickens in English: A Last Retrospect Index

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Book SynopsisIn Life Is Elsewhere, Anne Lounsbery shows how nineteenth-century Russian literature created an imaginary place called the provincesa place at once homogeneous, static, anonymous, and symbolically opposed to Petersburg and Moscow. Lounsbery looks at a wide range of texts, both canonical and lesser-known, in order to explain why the trope has exercised such enduring power, and what role it plays in the larger symbolic geography that structures Russian literature''s representation of the nation''s space. Using a comparative approach, she brings to light fundamental questions that have long gone unasked: how to understand, for instance, the weakness of literary regionalism in a country as large as Russia? Why the insistence, from Herzen through Chekhov and beyond, that all Russian towns look the same? In a literary tradition that constantly compared itself to a western European standard, Lounsbery argues, the problem of provinciality always implied difficultTrade ReviewThis is another excellent release in the NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies... a nuanced and enlightening book written in clear, jargon-free prose. * Choice *This highly important book provides a new understanding of what the author calls the provincial trope in Russian literature.The book has significant implications for history as well as literary criticism. * The Russian Review *The book's scope is one of its strongest qualities: Lounsbery goes beyond Gogol' and Chekhov and includes a range of other writers' uses of the provincial trope. The result is a fascinating and exhaustive analysis of the symbolic geography of Russian nineteenth-century literature. * Slavonic and East European Review *This book does a rare thing: it takes a topic that all readers of nineteenth-century Russian literature think they understand, provintsiia, and demonstrates that this apparently selfevident construct, associated with boredom and meaninglessness, is multifaceted, vibrant, and significant. In so doing, Life is Elsewhere genuinely transforms our understanding of nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Life Is Elsewhere is a striking example of a successful thematic approach to literary analysis. At the same time, it is a bold re-evaluation of overlooked themes and texts in Russian literature, lending itself both to classroom discussion and to the rediscovery of individual writers in new contexts. * Modern Language Review *This is a magisterial book, generous in its wealth of information and citations, theoretically informed, thorough, and beautifully written.Lounsbery has proven that the Russian provinces are in fact deeply interesting, both as a foil and as a broader vehicle for helping us grapple with challenges of Russian identity and Russia's place both in the canon of world literature and geopolitically in the world. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation 1. Geography, History, Trope: Facts on the Ground 2. Before the Provinces: Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral in Pushkin's Countryside 3. Inventing Provincial Backwardness, or "Everything is Barbarous and Horrid" (Herzen, Sollogub, and Others) 4. "This is Paris itself!": Gogol in the Town of N 5. "I Do Beg of You, Wait, and Compare!": Goncharov, Belinsky, and Provincial Taste 6. Back Home: The Provincial Lives of Turgenev's Cosmopolitans 7. Transcendence Deferred: Women Writers in the Provinces 8. Melnikov and Leskov, or What is Regionalism in Russia? 9. Centering and Decentering in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 10. "Everything Here is Accidental": Chekhov's Geography of Meaninglessness 11. In the End: Shchedrin, Sologub, and Terminal Provinciality 12. Conclusion: The Provinces in the Twentieth Century List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Heaven''s Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women''s individual agency and collective action.Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook ediTable of ContentsIntroduction: Writing Women's Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America 1. "My Resolve Is the Feminine of My Father's Oath": Ritual Agency and Religious Language in the Early National Historical Novel 2. "Unsheathe the Sword of a Strong, Unbending Will": Sentimental Agency and the Doctrinal Work of Woman's Fiction 3. "I Have Sinned against God and Myself ": Bearing Witness to Enslaved Women's Agency in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4. "The Human Soul...Makes All Things Sacred": Communal Agency in the Theological Romances of Harriet Beecher Stowe 5. "I Have No Disbelief ": Women's Spiritualist Novels and Nonliberal Agencies Conclusion: Women's Religious Agency Today

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Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a lady novelist. As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents'' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it.Exploring the connections between Woolf''s immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation''s concerns and controversies to Woolf''s considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf''s creative works, politics, and criticism in Trade ReviewCorbett's meticulously researched study... locates influence socially as well as literarily, and details the societal changes wrought by the female Victorian writers... * Choice *In Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts, Mary Jean Corbett makes a nuanced contribution to the discussion by showing that Woolf's relationship with the Victorians was not a matter of periodicity but one of generation, attitude, and temperament. Well-written and well-informed, this book draws on the latest debates in Woolf scholarship concerning public life, political activism, the professions, and history, and it adds an important dimension to discussion of Woolf and the Victorians. * Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature *The book provides a road map to guide us through the obscured routes of Woolf's neglected second-generation female predecessors. Corbett makes us pause to consider diversions from the Victorian male-dominated high road trodden by Woolf's father's venerated literary companions—Hardy, James, Meredith—and in some ways by Woolf herself. Through extensive research—patiently plodding along these archival paths—Corbett has made some of those second-generation voices more richly accessible to us. * Virginia Wolf Miscellany *A considerable achievement. For too long Woolf has been placed on a pedestal as the 'exceptional' modernist woman, despite the efforts of scholars to challenge this narrative. Corbett offers us a different Woolf, one entangled and immersed in a world richly populated with exceptional women; perhaps a messier, more complicated picture, but one truer and all the more interesting for that. * Modernism/modernity *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Gender, Greatness, and the "Third Generation" Interlude I: Grand Reads Woolf 2. New Women and Old: Sarah Grand, Social Purity, and The Voyage Out Interlude II: Disinterestedness 3. "Ashamed of the Inkpot": Woolf and the Literary Marketplace Interlude III: Duckworth and Company 4. "To Serve and Bless": Julia Stephen, Isabel Somerset, and Late-Victorian Women's Politics Interlude IV: Somerset, Symonds,Stephen, and Sexuality 5. "A Diferent Ideal": Representing the Public Woman

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Book SynopsisThe Masses Are Revolting reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emotion, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this negative emotional response came to play an outsized, volatile part in the emergence of modern British society. Attending to the emotion''s socially productive role, Zachary Samalin highlights concrete scenes of Victorian disgust, from sewer tunnels and courtrooms to operating tables and alleyways. Samalin focuses on a diverse set of nineteenth-century writers and thinkersincluding Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, and Charlotte Brontëwhose works reflect on the shifting, unstable meaning of disgust across the period.Samalin elaborates this cultural history of Victorian disgust in specific domains of British society, ranging from the construction of London''s sewer system, the birth of modern obscenity law, and the development of the conventTrade ReviewThe assiduity with which Samalin has charted 1857 to 1860 is complemented by the laser-like precision with which he has uncovered a valuable array of arguments and ideas that would be largely illegible without the cogent and precise accounting of disgust this book ably puts forth. * Victorian Studies *This rich genealogy of theory, and the preference for historicist method, leave open a number of avenues of conceptual exploration that should invigorate readers. [Tthe book so voraciously reads primary nineteenth-century journalism, social science, and evolutionary science, and so skillfully threads these with twentieth- and twenty-first-century psychology, law, and social theory, while nonetheless defining its core object as "political aesthetics." * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Of Origins and Orifices Part I: The Rationalization of Revulsion 1. The Odor of Things 2. Realism and Repulsion Part II.: Primal Scenes, Human Sciences 3. Darwin's Vomit 4. The Masses Are Revolting; or, The Birth of Social Theory from the Spirit of Disgust Part III: The Disenchantment of Disgust 5. The Age of Obscenity Conclusion: Horizons of Expectoration

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Book SynopsisIn Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville''s abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville''s creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work.Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments.With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader''s understanding of the moralTrade ReviewThis book has an added advantage of serving as a reader's guide to the novel, one which will be indispensable to any serious reader of Moby-Dick, whether for the first or the twentieth time. * Sewanee Review *The best reading of this iconic novel in recent memory. Under Cook's expert eye, Moby-Dick divulges secrets of the Second Coming and Melville's conflicting religious inclinations. Cook's masterful and wide-ranging command of Melville's library makes Moby-Dick into a guided tour through the Western canon. * Religion & Literature *Of all books about Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (and there are many), Jonathan A. Cook's is one that needed to be written. Cook organizes this potentially unwieldy and unfathomable topic in a way that scholars will find useful as a reference for repeated consultation. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *

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Book SynopsisFrom the teeming streets of Dickens''s London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic shift in British political thought. She shows how the nineteenth-century novel in particular claimed a new cultural role as it took on the task of narrating human aggregation at a moment when the Malthusian specter of surplus population suddenly and quite unexpectedly became a central premise of modern politics.In readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Mary Braddon, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad that link fiction and biopolitics, Steinlight brings the crowds that pervade nineteenth-century fiction into the foreground. In so doing, she transforms the subject and political stakes of the VictoTrade ReviewPopulating the Novel is an impressive and thought-provoking work. It lays down a gauntlet to other scholars for further examination of biopower and surplus in nineteenth-century literature and culture. * Dickens Quarterly *Steinlight's study moves across a truly impressive array of materials and does so without ever sacrificing close attention to the particular texts under consideration. The book moves fluently beyond the rigid periodizations that continue to govern the professional life of nineteenth-century scholars. * Modern Philology *Populating the Novel is an extremely accomplished and wide-ranging monograph that contributes forcefully to the field of nineteenth-century novel studies. The argument that the multitude, not the individual, is the focus of nineteenth-century fiction takes criticism in an exciting new direction. * Modern Language Review *Populating the Novel is a compelling, thought-provoking work of criticism. Steinlight's reading of traditional narratives in the nineteenth century helps redefine pre-existing ideas about the novel's cultural role while simultaneously considering how its form was heavily influenced by demographics. This significant contribution to scholarship helps reimagine life in the aggregate while demonstrating a unique approach to socio-political aspects of the English novel. * Victorian Review *A work of scholarship that fulfills and exceeds the multitude of promises contained in its title. After describing and delineating the overcrowded demographics of Romantic and Victorian writing, Steinlight makes a provocative claim about population: in an age of efflorescence of biopolitical principles and quantitative social science, population becomes a political, economic, sociological, and, above all, literary problem. * V21 Collations Book Forum *While England's population more than tripled during the nineteenth century, the congested narratives of this era's fiction do not simply reflect demographic change. Instead, as Steinlight powerfully contends, they turn that reality into a pressing political problem that exposes the limits of social and political institutions to contain, manage, and care for the biological life of the populace. * Studies in the Novel *

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Book SynopsisDickens''s Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens''s use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens''s use of bodily idiomsright-hand man, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstoneagainst the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London''s streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the

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Book SynopsisDickens''s Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens''s use of low and slangular (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens''s use of bodily idiomsright-hand man, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstoneagainst the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London''s streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a leading cause of death across America, Europe, and the Russian Empire. The incurable disease gave rise to a culture of convalescence, creating new opportunities for travel and literary reflection. Tubercular Capital tells the story of Yiddish and Hebrew writers whose lives and work were transformed by a tubercular diagnosis. Moving from eastern Europe to the Italian Peninsula, and from Mandate Palestine to the Rocky Mountains, Sunny S. Yudkoff follows writers including Sholem Aleichem, Raḥel Bluvshtein, David Vogel, and others as they sought "the cure" and drew on their experiences of illness to hone their literary craft. Combining archival research with literary analysis, Yudkoff uncovers how tuberculosis came to function as an agent of modern Jewish literature. The illness would provide the means for these suffering writers to grow their reputations and find financial backing. It served a central role in the public fashioning of their literary personas and ushered Jewish writers into a variety of intersecting English, German, and Russian literary traditions. Tracing the paths of these writers, Tubercular Capital reconsiders the foundational relationship between disease, biography, and literature.Trade Review"This brilliant study combines thorough historical research with a fine-grained analysis of texts produced under the shadow of the 'White Death,' all framed by a powerful account of the cultural and economic matrix within which both the career of the individual poet and the tradition of tubercular writing are most fruitfully articulated." -- Ernest B. Gilman * New York University *"Resisting the sentimental transformation of illness into metaphor described by Susan Sontag, while attending to the persistently romanticized 'consumptive artist,' Sunny Yudkoff's brilliant study provides a new model for understanding the relationship between literary creativity and tuberculosis. Tubercular Capital argues that writers strategically mobilized their tuberculosis, both for their careers and in their work, even as they were laid low by disease. From Sholem Aleichem's 'tubercular Jubilee' to the sickrooms and sanatoria of other Hebrew and Yiddish writers, tuberculosis was inextricable from the burgeoning of early twentieth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literary culture." -- Naomi Seidman * University of Toronto *"Yudkoff's exploration seamlessly merges speculation with concrete history....Tempting as it may be to imbue illness with its own transcendental power, she chooses to depict its force with a more material and pragmatic truth, warning of the dangerous contortions of pain that come with romanticization." -- Arshy Azizi * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This research on the role that tuberculosis played in the lives and creative output of modern Jewish writers is original and fascinating....Highly recommended for academic libraries collecting in the area of Jewish culture and literature." -- Yaffa Weisman * Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter *"A major asset of [Tubercular Capital] is the fact that it retains an unromanticized view of suffering artists, which is even more important when examining their treasured poetic work." -- Heidi Stern * The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Jewish Literature and Tubercular Capital chapter abstractThe Introduction sets the stage for a larger investigation into the intersection of tuberculosis, biography, and literary output. To do so, the Introduction offers an account of the state of Yiddish and Hebrew literature at the turn of the twentieth century as well as an overview of various cultural-historical connotations of tuberculosis among Jewish and non-Jewish readers. This includes an examination of Romantic notions about consumption, anti-Semitic discourses surrounding tuberculosis, and the reputation of the disease among Zionists, communists, and Jewish public health officials across the globe. The Introduction further introduces the methodological intervention of the study—tubercular capital—by bringing together sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of "cultural capital" with anthropologist Didier Fassin's investigations into the "politics of life." 1In the Hands of Every Reader: Sholem Aleichem's Tubercular Jubilee chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role played by disease in the life and career of the classic Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem (né Sholem Rabinovitsh). After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1908, a global campaign known as "The Jubilee" was initiated to help the destitute author recuperate in Nervi, Italy. Drawing on archival sources, newspaper articles, and multiple memoirs, this chapter plots how the campaign promoted the author's reputation, stabilized his finances, and inaugurated the first formal stage of literary-critical assessments of his work. It further analyzes the importance of tuberculosis in Sholem Aleichem's literary output, in the development of his literary persona, and in the establishment of a mutually-effective relationship with his readership. 2In a Sickroom of Her Own: Raḥel Bluvshtein's Tubercular Poetry chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role of tuberculosis in the life and writing of the Hebrew poet known as Raḥel. To do so, the chapter draws on the comparative model of the Victorian sickroom to examine how Raḥel transformed the space of her recuperation into a veritable salon of literary exchange and creativity. Reading Raḥel's correspondence and poetry and drawing on the memoiristic accounts published by her visitors, this chapter reveals that Raḥel's Tel Aviv sickroom became the center of her public self-fashioning as an ailing female poet. The sickroom further serves as the key for interpreting the link between Raḥel's poetics of space, simplicity (pashtut), and the spread (hitpashtut) of disease. This chapter also sharpens scholarly understanding of Raḥel's literary biography by situating her work within an Eastern European Romantic tradition of writing about consumption that stands in tension with contemporaneous Zionist ideas concerning illness. 3In the Kingdom of Fever: The Writers of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society chapter abstractThis chapter investigates the literary scene of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS), a Coloradan sanatorium for indigent Jews. There, a cohort of Yiddish tubercular writers engaged in a reciprocal relationship with the institution, becoming the public faces of the sanatorium and, in turn, being offered new venues to see their work published and translated. These writers include the lyric poet and Bible translator Yehoash, the epic poet H. Leivick, and the prose stylist Shea Tenenbaum. Drawing on archival records, newspaper reports, and memoirs, the chapter further explores how the JCRS supported the establishment of a tubercular American Yiddish literary tradition. 4In the Sanatorium: David Vogel Between Hebrew and German chapter abstractThis chapter examines the role played by tuberculosis in the life and writing of the Hebrew modernist David Vogel. After taking the cure in Merano, Italy in the winters of 1925 and 1926, he published his first novella, Be-vet ha-marpe (In the Sanatorium) in 1927. The text draws heavily on the tropes and concerns of German-language sanatorium fiction, including works by Arthur Schnitzler, Klabund, and Thomas Mann. Specifically, this chapter argues that Vogel writes his account of the sanatorium in a tense intertextual exchange with Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924). Vogel challenges the possibility of a Hebrew-German literary conversation through a series of interlingual puns, wordplays, and jokes about tuberculosis. Illness emerges in this chapter as the hermeneutic key to Vogel's modernism. Epilogue: After the Cure chapter abstractThis chapter explores post-Holocaust iterations of tuberculosis and sanatoria in the work of the Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld. Although he did not suffer from tuberculosis, Appelfeld frequently turns to the disease and its institutions, such as in his 1975 novella, Badenheim, 'ir nofesh (English: Badenheim 1939). Bringing his work into dialogue with the texts of the tubercular writers of the pre-WWII period, this chapter demonstrates the continued relevance of tubercular capital as a methodological prism and analytic category, even after a diagnosis of tuberculosis was no longer commonplace among modern Jewish writers.

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Book SynopsisPhonopoetics tells the neglected story of early "talking records" and their significance for literature, from the 1877 invention of the phonograph to some of the first recorded performances of modernist works. The book challenges assumptions of much contemporary criticism by taking the recorded, oral performance as its primary object of analysis and by exploring the historically specific convergences between audio recording technologies, media formats, generic forms, and the institutions and practices surrounding the literary. Opening with an argument that the earliest spoken recordings were a mediated extension of Victorian reading and elocutionary culture, Jason Camlot explains the literary significance of these pre-tape era voice artifacts by analyzing early promotional fantasies about the phonograph as a new kind of speaker and detailing initiatives to deploy it as a pedagogical tool to heighten literary experience. Through historically-grounded interpretations of Dickens impersonators to recitations of Tennyson to T.S. Eliot's experimental readings of "The Waste Land" and of a great variety of voices and media in between, this first critical history of the earliest literary sound recordings offers an unusual perspective on the transition from the Victorian to modern periods and sheds new light on our own digitally mediated relationship to the past.Trade Review"Camlot's riveting account of the oldest surviving poetry recordings delivers one dazzling close listening after another. Not a crackle, hum, trill, or vibrato goes unnoticed by the author's exquisitely tuned ear. Drawing on a lifetime spent in the company of vintage phonographs, Phonopoetics will be an essential guide to historic spoken word recordings of literature." -- Matthew Rubery * Queen Mary University of London *"Phonopoetics is a book best appreciated 'in stereo' as a fresh and compelling perspective on the early phonograph industry and a generative new framework for understanding the culture and practice of poetry recitation." -- Jacob Smith * Northwestern University *"Camlot challenges assumptions of contemporary literary criticism by taking the heard audio-text as a primary object of analysis....Recommended." -- S. Schmidt Horning * CHOICE *"Camlot breaks entirely new ground. His study provides, without exaggeration, something truly original for the field of sound studies, opening up entirely new archives and objects of analysis, new questions and answers." -- Tyler Whitney * Modernism/modernity *"Camlot's groundbreaking work teaches us myriad techniques for newly engaging with the audible content of media artifacts. His Phonopoetics models for us a novel audiotextual criticism and form of close listening through which we may freshly access the signals of some of history's earliest recorded sounds." -- Andrew Burkett * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Introduction: Audiotextual Criticism chapter abstractThe introduction explores the strange sonic and material qualities of early sound recordings and outlines a methodology for the critical study of early spoken recordings as literary artifacts. It defines concepts that are at the core of the book, including the meaning of "literary recording", "sound", "signal", "audiotextual genres" and "sound media formats." In outlining a sound-based approach to literary studies, and in considering the synergies between textual criticism and literary sound recordings, it provides a schema for the pursuit of audiotextual criticism, that is, the formal and historical study of literary sound recordings. 1The Voice of the Phonograph chapter abstractChapter 1 analyzes the early promotional discourse surrounding the phonograph as a medium of natural fidelity and then situates the idea of the phonograph as a "pure voice" medium within the context of popular recitation anthologies in order to identify key elocutionary preconceptions that informed the vocal performances heard in early spoken recordings. In revealing the affinities that existed between late Victorian short spoken recordings and the brief texts meant for speaking aloud that were collected in nineteenth-century recitation anthologies, this opening chapter explains the preconceived notions about the phonograph as a new media technology and the significance of sound recording for the performance of literary texts, in particular. 2Charles Dickens in Three Minutes or Less: Early Phonographic Fiction chapter abstractChapter 2 focuses on the development and production of the earliest sound recordings drawn from the novels of Charles Dickens. The Dickens recordings of Bransby Williams and William Sterling Battis stand as the earliest fiction-based audio adaptations produced specifically for pedagogical application, and represent an interesting bridge between earlier conceptions of the talking record as a novel form of popular entertainment and the later, pedagogically motivated category of the literary recording. To shed light on the historical transition from "talking record" to "literary recording" and the emergence of what we now call educational technology, this chapter examines the particular kinds of literary adaptation in early recordings produced specifically for teaching literature in the classroom. 3Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Spectral Energy: Historical Intonation in Dramatic Recitation chapter abstractChapter 3 tells the story of the multiple recordings made between 1890 and 1920, both by the poet himself and by actors and elocutionists, of Tennyson's poem "The Charge of The Light Brigade." It analyzes the kinds of performance and genre that informed the production of these recordings and locates the speech sounds heard on them in debates of the period about elocution and verse speaking. An account of late Victorian methods of "dramatic" interpretation as elaborated by Samuel Silas Curry in Imagination and Dramatic Instinct opens into a longer genealogy of oral interpretation, and considers the import of New Criticism as a method of literary interpretation that worked to silence oral performance in the classroom. The close listening in this chapter also explores the potential of digital speech analysis tools to help us to fix and visualize elocutionary, prosodic features of these recordings of "Charge." 4T. S. Eliot's Recorded Experiments in Modernist Verse Speaking chapter abstractChapter 4 offers a series of interpretive takes on T. S. Eliot's 1930s electrically recorded voice experiments in reading his poem The Waste Land aloud. It traces Eliot's attempt to invent a way to read modernist poetry. Explaining the production context of the 1933 recordings, the chapter situates Eliot's audible reading experiments within contemporary debates surrounding the English verse-speaking movement, and Eliot's work for the BBC. Finally, it provides a close-listening analysis of Eliot's reading experiments with duration and amplitude, as well as a series of nonsemantic phrasing and intonation techniques, and especially the use of monotone in reading. Eliot's method of reading is interpreted as a performance of the abstract conception of "voice" that functions as an organizing principle in New Critical discourse. Eliot's recorded readings are heard to sound an organizing method of incantation that evokes the possibility of an overarching oracular or otherworldly voice. Conclusion: Conclusion: Analog, Digital, Conceptual chapter abstractThe Conclusion to Phonopoetics explores conceptions of voice preservation and models of the voice archive. It takes early ideas of the audible archival artifact (the sound recording) and the event-oriented scenario of its use as useful points of departure for a historically motivated theorization of the voice recording and voice archive at the present time. Specifically, it considers the impact of digital media technologies on the status of the record and its archive. The Conclusion mediates on how the analogue artifact of the sound archive has shaped our ideas and expectations about what a digital repository should be, and reflects on the status of the artifact of study as we move increasingly from the study of material media artifacts to virtual instantiations of the signals those media may once have held, in the form of digital media files.

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Book SynopsisThe Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface minstrelsy in literature of the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras, Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways antiblackness structured US cultural production during a crucial moment of reconstructing and re-narrating US empire after the Civil War. Examining texts by major American writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sui Sin Far, and Charles Chesnutt—Yang traces the intertwined histories of blackface minstrelsy and Chinese labor. Her bold rereading of these authors' contradictory positions on race and labor sees the figure of the Chinese worker as both hiding and making visible the legacy of slavery and antiblackness. Ultimately, The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery shows how the Chinese worker manifests the inextricable links between US literature, slavery, and empire, as well as the indispensable role of antiblackness as a cultural form in the United States.Trade Review"Elegantly parsing both continuities and discontinuities in racial formation from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Caroline Yang charts the peculiar survivals of the minstrel form. The power of antiblackness to deform Blackness and Chineseness on both stage and page is everywhere evident in this assiduously researched and argued book." -- Tavia Nyong'o * Yale University *"The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery offers fascinating new insights into minstrelsy as an enduring cultural form. Caroline Yang's nuanced comparative analyses enrich by challenging us to reconceptualize minstrelsy in the development of US literature and our ideas of the 'West.'" -- Edlie L. Wong * University of Maryland, College Park *"Yang provides new insights into the role of blackface minstrelsy in the post–Civil War period, particularly in California....Readers should bear in mind that the author's aim is not to explore the personal racism of any given author. Rather, it is to elucidate an evolving system of racial representation deployed across literature and popular culture that underpinned white supremacy, US imperialism, and settler colonialism. Recommended." -- J. R. Wendland * CHOICE *"Situating the 'Chinese question' in relation to Reconstruction, The Peculiar Afterlife assiduously documents continuities between the white supremacy of the antebellum South and the racial logics of the frontier... Yang's excavation of the Chinese worker's representational ties to blackface minstrelsy provides a timely illustration of the pervasive and constitutive role of antiblackness in US racial discourses." -- Amy C. Tang * The American Literary History Online Review *

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Book SynopsisThe Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface minstrelsy in literature of the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras, Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways antiblackness structured US cultural production during a crucial moment of reconstructing and re-narrating US empire after the Civil War. Examining texts by major American writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sui Sin Far, and Charles Chesnutt—Yang traces the intertwined histories of blackface minstrelsy and Chinese labor. Her bold rereading of these authors' contradictory positions on race and labor sees the figure of the Chinese worker as both hiding and making visible the legacy of slavery and antiblackness. Ultimately, The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery shows how the Chinese worker manifests the inextricable links between US literature, slavery, and empire, as well as the indispensable role of antiblackness as a cultural form in the United States.Trade Review"Elegantly parsing both continuities and discontinuities in racial formation from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, Caroline Yang charts the peculiar survivals of the minstrel form. The power of antiblackness to deform Blackness and Chineseness on both stage and page is everywhere evident in this assiduously researched and argued book." -- Tavia Nyong'o * Yale University *"The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery offers fascinating new insights into minstrelsy as an enduring cultural form. Caroline Yang's nuanced comparative analyses enrich by challenging us to reconceptualize minstrelsy in the development of US literature and our ideas of the 'West.'" -- Edlie L. Wong * University of Maryland, College Park *"Yang provides new insights into the role of blackface minstrelsy in the post–Civil War period, particularly in California....Readers should bear in mind that the author's aim is not to explore the personal racism of any given author. Rather, it is to elucidate an evolving system of racial representation deployed across literature and popular culture that underpinned white supremacy, US imperialism, and settler colonialism. Recommended." -- J. R. Wendland * CHOICE *"Situating the 'Chinese question' in relation to Reconstruction, The Peculiar Afterlife assiduously documents continuities between the white supremacy of the antebellum South and the racial logics of the frontier... Yang's excavation of the Chinese worker's representational ties to blackface minstrelsy provides a timely illustration of the pervasive and constitutive role of antiblackness in US racial discourses." -- Amy C. Tang * The American Literary History Online Review *

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